BTB #159: It’s 2010, Do You Know Where Your Copyright Is?

At the recent Tools of Change conference, Outsell lead analyst Ned May launched a report on “The State of Copyright in the Digital Age – What Is A Publisher to Do?” The number-crunching yields 370 billion “information sharing events” in a single year across the US, with a projected loss of $2 billion in licensing revenue.

Yet the biggest surprise, as May sees it, is what hasn’t changed since the last survey in 2005, when Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube were non-players. “E-mail is still number one.”